JA in a Day is the first of its kind. Junior Achievement (JA) is a national organization dedicated to teaching elementary schoolers about financial literacy, workplace readiness and entrepreneurship. Marshall’s IB business program, however, is the first to adapt the JA program in such a way that high schoolers can teach it entirely in a day—as opposed to one session a week for six weeks.

“It was a huge deal,” IB Business teacher Rebekah Glasbrenner said.

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Coming home from a weekend in North Carolina, the Model United Nations (MUN) team won Best Large School, two gavels and other awards for individual delegates.

These achievements took place at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Conference from April 1 to 3.

Juniors Brian Potter and Karthik Kumarappan won a gavel, the highest award for a delegate, while representing Portugal in the General Assembly Committee.

Junior Bruce Ferguson also won a gavel for representing Yemen in the Interpol Committee.

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Between a Special Award from the Society of In-vitro Biology and second place in their category, the Virginia State Science and Engineering Fair proved productive for juniors Abby Schneider and Sarah Quattrocki.

The pair, along with another team of Alison Lenert and Mili Mittal, competed on April 2 at Old Dominion University at the state science fair competition. Both teams were grand prize winners at Marshall’s science fair and placed first at the Fairfax County Regional Science and Engineering Fair on March 20.

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According to school resource officer Tom Harrington, four Marshall students became involved in an incident involving illegal drug possession on Marshall grounds on March 17. The FCPS Student Responsibilities and Rights (SR&R) states that if any illegal drug or imitation illegal drug is possessed on school grounds, a mandatory ten-day suspension from school and recommendation for expulsion must be issued to the student and the incident must be reported to the police who may press criminal charges.

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After nearly a year of controversy and a legal opinion that ultimately escalated the decision to its final outcome, the FCPS School Board voted to refund approximately $2 million in fees collected to cover IB and AP exams on March 25.

This decision was largely in response to Virginia Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli’s official opinion on Jan. 28 that charging students for an exam that is a required part of a course is illegal.

According to IB coordinator Carlota Shewchuck, Cuccinelli “works closely with the school board and all of Fairfax County’s affairs.”

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The newly revived literary magazine, Reveille, has been actively working out ways to publicize their annual magazine and is hosting their first-ever creative arts festival today.

The main purpose of it is to “try to raise community and student awareness,” sponsor and English teacher Joyana Peters said. The event will also help raise money to keep the club going.

However, a challenge the club is facing is that it is “having a hard time raising money to put into the festival even before [they] could get anything out of it,” Peters said.

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I moved from Illinois after my freshman year in high school. I thought that the school would be almost the exact same as Illinois, both socially and academically. Socially, it was, because high school is pretty much the same anywhere you go, but academically, boy was I mistaken. Never beforeContinue Reading

What does it mean to be human? This question has indirectly split our society in two. Every day in these halls is a slow one, not because of work stress but because we are made to feel inferior. Any teacher or administrator would dispute this but that is sheer denial.Continue Reading

Due to the global economic downturn and governmental corruption, revolutions in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt have occurred. It is unlikely this trend will continue, however, because of the determination of the remaining regimes to stay in power in the Arab world. Furthermore the western world, specifically the United States, will use diplomatic pressure to maintain the governments of their allies.

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